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(Image: Baiten Bakery)
The Tamari Bar family has welcomed a sugary new addition with happy offerings for Capitol Hill sweet tooths. Baiten Bakery is now part of the bar’s E Pine lineup.
The collaboration with Fuji Bakery and Sugimoto Tea Company debuted this winter on Tamari Bar’s upper patio with a display case full of cookies and cookie sandwiches, mixed fruit sandwiches, and other special sweet creations, plus Japanese soft serve including kurogoma black sesame, matcha, and yuzu flavors.
You can stop by the counter from noon to 4 PM on Thursday and Fridays, and noon to 5 PM on Saturdays and Sundays. You can also ask about Baiten sweets available for order during service at Tamari Bar.
The addition of Baiten comes to Tamari Bar as it has become the center of chef Makoto Kimoto’s family of Seattle area food and drink ventures. The bar debuted in early 2018 across the street from its sibling Suika. The daytime-focused sibling Rondo opened on Broadway in 2020. Last September, CHS reported the sad news that Suika had lost its lease on E Pine but both Tamari and Rondo have continued on. Kimoto’s “chopstick stand” Hi Life opened on Bainbridge Island earlier this year. Baiten rounds out the happy family with sweets you’ll also sometimes find popping up at the other venues.
2022, meanwhile, has been a mixed bag for the neighborhood’s sweets and dessert offerings. In February, Cafe Pettirosso shuttered taking its cakes and baked goods with it. Meanwhile, Anchorhead Coffee opened a bakery as part of its new cafe on 12th Ave, vegan donut joint Dough Joy debuted on E Pine, the Don’t Yell At Me bubble tea shop is lined up to neighbor Dick’s on Broadway, a Timeless Tea is now open on north Broadway, and Capitol Hill born Top Pot celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Baiten Bakery is located inside Tamari Bar at 500 E Pine. You can learn more at tamaribarseattle.com/baiten.
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